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BUILDING PROJECTS
© BDP Graham Holt, design manager on the project for BAM, the
main contractors on the project, explains: “This will allow patients to access one building from another without mixing with the public. At present, they have to walk through public areas. That creates big issues with privacy and also infection. We’ve been there and seen blue bags. When you do, you know what that is [a dead body]. This will solve all those problems.” The ground floor level of the concourse building will be
open to the public, but the upper first floor level will be restricted to patients to create this much needed privacy for patients. This was part of the overall design for the scheme, which has been guided by the trust’s design vision. This vision also incorporates a master-plan for the entire site. Design for the new scheme has been guided by 10 specific
principles, which include promotion of best clinical practice, creating a safe hospital, making the best possible use of space, creating an efficient and co-ordinated 'campus' and allowing easy movement around the site. The principles also aim to create reassuring and comfortable
environment, put the 'park' back into Musgrove Park, create a distinct sense of place, anticipate the changing needs of the hospital and create sustainable hospital buildings. Instead of open wards, a shift in patient care has seen single
rooms with en-suite bathrooms. Externally, the specification of the building features a mixture of Eternit cement tiles, ren- der, terracotta and zinc cladding. The trust is an enthusiastic supporter of local art, which is
found across the existing site. This extended to the new hospi- tal and the exterior will include a stainless steel installation reflecting the famous murmurations of starlings that can be seen at sunset and sundown on the Westhay, Ham Wall and Shapwick Heath Reserves on Somerset Levels. Holt adds: “It’s going to be full size starlings cut out by laser
from stainless steel sheets. The trust recognises that by creating a nice environment helps with healing and that’s recognised in the overall design.” The stainless steel murmuration has been designed by local artist Christopher Tipping and is being produced by a local Continued overleaf...
Artist Impression of the Jubilee Building: putting the ‘park’ back into Musgrove Park Hospital
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